If one grasps this, one has no difficulty in understanding the statists’ antagonism toward the gold standard.
ALAN GREENSPANThe Iraq War is largely about oil.
More Alan Greenspan Quotes
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There are no easy choices. Easy choices are long gone.
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If I say something which you understand fully in this regard, I probably made a mistake.
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If all currencies are moving up or down together, the question is: relative to what? Gold is the canary in the coal mine.
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In the process we have created [a] privileged elite whose incomes are being supported at non-competitively high levels by immigration quotas on skilled professionals.
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I guess I should warn you, if I turn out to be particularly clear, you’ve probably misunderstood what I’ve said.
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Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes.
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Before I met Ayn Rand, I was a logical positivist, and accordingly,
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An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions.
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It signals problems with respect to currency markets. Central banks should pay attention to it.
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Deficit spending is simply a scheme for the confiscation of wealth.If I seem unduly clear to you, you must have misunderstood what I said.
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Market financed withdrawals of home equity in recent years.
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I am saddened that it is politically inconvenient to acknowledge what everyone knows: the Iraq war is largely about oil.
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At the risk of some oversimplification, if the skill composition of our work force meshed fully with the needs of our increasingly complex capital-stock, wage-skill differentials would be stable.
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American and British authorities were also concerned about violence in an area that harbors a resource indispensable for the functioning of the word economy.
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I’m a better economist than I was a sax player.
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